BBC: Sex between men and women is only 100 years old

The Dorland Medical Dictionary of 1901 defines heterosexuality as “an abnormal and perverted appetite for the opposite sex.” Two decades later, in 1923, Merriam Webster's vocabulary defined it as “morbid sexual passion for someone from the opposite sex.” Until 1934, heterosexuality was not accepted as it is today: “the celebration of sexual passion for someone from the opposite sex; normal sexuality. ”

But people are shocked to learn that not only homosexuality but also heterosexuality has been difficult to accept as normal in the public realm. The idea of reproduction, thought to have been done by this type of sexuality, has no doubt influenced this. The answer is no. There is a difference between reproductive interaction between a man and a woman and heterosexuality.

“Sex has no history,” writes queer theory at Michigan University, because “is based on body functions.” Sexuality, on the other hand, just because “is cultural product” has history. In other words, while sex is something deeply linked between many species, appointment and classification of these acts, and those who have practiced these acts, it is a historical phenomenon, and it may have to be studied as such.

Or in a different form: There have always been sexual instincts in the animal world. But at a specific point in time, people gave meaning to these instincts. When people talk about heterosexuality, we're talking about the second [sexuality].

In 2007, the International Institute for Space Exploration listed the fish Electricox Addision as one of the <x0top 10 new species” of the year. But of course, the species didn't come out all of a sudden. It's only when it was discovered and it was scientifically given a name.

Something similar happened to heterosexuals, who, at the end of the 20th century, passed from simply being there to being known. Before 1868 there was no heterosexual,” says the theory, Hanne Blank. It wasn't happening to people until then to be replaced by the kind of love or sexual desire they felt. Sexual behavior, of course, was identified and Catholicismd, and on many occasions, it stopped.

What changed? Language.

In the late 1960 ' s, Hungarian journalist Carl Maria Kerbeney invented four terms to describe sexual experience: heterosexual, homosexual, and two already forgotten terms to describe masturbation and ferocity called monosexual and heterogenous. Kerbeny used the term <x0). The editor, Gustav Jaeger, had decided not to publish it, and published a book himself with the term used by Kertby in 1880.

The second time it was used was in 1889, by an Austrian psychiatrist named Richard von Krafft-Ebing, who spoke of sexual disorders.

The same psychiatrist, who spoke of abnormality, created a small space that did not even index heterosexuality and take it indirectly as normal. Of course, at that meal it was difficult to think of a sexual act that was not intended for reproduction.

The importance of this construction from the reproductive instinct to the erotic desire cannot be exaggerated because it is key to modern notions of sexuality. When people today think of sexuality, they can do it this way: Ali realizes from a young age that he is totally attracted to women. One day he focuses on the erotic energy in Susan, and he hangs it. The couple fall in love, materializing it with physical sexual expression. Thus, they live happily ever after.

Without Krafft-Ebing, this lurid could never be seen as abnormal. The definition of sexual instinct as normal according to the erotic and non-reproducing desire was a fundamental revolution in sexual thinking. Krafft-Ebing paved the way for cultural change between the definition of 1923 for the heterosexuality he viewed as "morbid" and 1934, which he viewed as abnormal.

Blank, mentioned earlier, argues that the invention of heterosexuality corresponds to the establishment of the middle class.

In the late 19th century, populations in cities of Europe and North America began to explode. By 1900, for example, there were 3.4 million inhabitants of New York City - 56 times more than a century ago. As people moved to urban centers, they also brought sexual perverts such as prostitution, eroticism, and the same sex. “When cities were small, she adds, it was easier to control such behavior. The rumors of towns and small places could be a major cause for people's rejection of previous standards.

Because the growing public awareness of these sexual practices was parallel to the spilling of low classes into these cities, the <x0 urban sexual evil behaviour was typically, if unjustly, blamed” by the poor and working classes. It was important for the middle class that had just emerged to separate itself from the sexual excesses. Debtian families wanted to protect its members “from aristcratic decadenties on one side and the city's density horrors on the other”. This required subx4 universal, renewable universal systems for social management that could be implemented to a large extent”.

In the past, these systems could be based on religion, but the new secular “state required secular excuses for its laws,” says the theory in question.

And for Freud, heterosexuals were born, not in that form, but in that form. Heterosexuality was an achievement; those who succeeded had sailed into their childhood development. /

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